Thiruvananthapuram, March 17 -- Kerala Congress (M), a partner in the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), announced their candidates for the upcoming Kerala assembly polls on Monday.

KC(M) chairman and Rajya Sabha MP Jose K Mani will fight from the Pala assembly constituency in Kottayam, a seat his father KM Mani represented for over five decades until his death in 2019. Pala is currently represented by Mani C Kappan, a partner in the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).

Water resources minister and senior KC(M) leader Roshy Augustine has been renominated from Idukki constituency while four of the remaining five sitting MLAs including Pramod Narayan, ...